Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2004

I covered our Human Rights program, including the Martus Project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (which joined Benetech last year). This is based on a talk I gave in Sri Lanka last year at the University of Peradeniya, but with a heavier technology component given the engineering audience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2012

I’m Thushan Ganegedara, a 3 rd year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Benetech is very pleased to have talented, dedicated engineers like Thusan working for us this summer, and very grateful that Google included us in their Summer of Code program!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

She is conducting an evaluation of a reproductive health voucher program in Uganda and Cambodia as part of her dissertation, and she co-instructs the International Maternal and Child Health Seminar, and the Maternal and Child Health Core course at UC Berkeley.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011.

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Bangladesh Sri Lanka Accessibility Raise 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program. Benetech's Human Rights Program Manager, Kristen Cibelli, has just relocated to Liberia for at least six months. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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Darfur Liberia Sri Lanka Literacy 100

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

We work primarily in the Washington, DC area and in Southeast Asia to promote programs that are addressing the root causes of human trafficking, and to provide sustainable alternatives to trafficking. There is actually a great piece by a professor at George Washington University, Ronald Weitzer.

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